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English: I’ve been at CDC for 22 years. Since 2001, I’ve been a health economist with the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. I analyze data on the cost of conditions, from ADHD and autism to hemophilia and spina bifida. I also study ways to improve people’s health who have these conditions.

I have a special passion for newborn screening, which is a public health success story, because it saves babies and money! In 2011, HHS recommended that states screen newborns for critical congenital heart defects using a simple, noninvasive test. As part of that recommendation, CDC studied the costs and assessed the cost-effectiveness of screening. Later, after screening was widely adopted, I worked with others to use national data on births and deaths to look at the number of deaths avoided in states that had adopted the HHS recommendation. We found that infants born after states required screening had a one-third lower risk of dying from heart defects. More than 100 lives are saved each year as a result of this screening.

I love my job because CDC has given me the opportunity to apply my education in economics and public health to real world problems and solutions!

I’m Scott Grosse and I AM CDC!

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